Chromium knock off that seems to be based on killing all links to Google.

I'm on an election site tonight thats going crazy following Iowa and my machine - running Chrome beta is going NUTs running high cpu fan at hign speed so I switch to Iridium - same websites and the machine calmed right down.

Chrome and Chromium have a lot going on in the background that cause that high usage.

Its numbers came in faster than Chrome or Chromium on my machine using Googles Octane tests. Not by a significant margin but still faster.

That's not FUD, that has been proven to exist. And it's not a bad thing, actually; at least the calls aren't to Google. In addition, you can build the browser without any calls at all, not even to Iridium's servers.

A new release was planned for August 2017, but it seems to be delayed. The latest release is based on Chromium v58.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/index.html#news
The next planned release will be based on Chromium 60.0. Version 59 had no crucial security related fixes as such. Therefore we’ve decided to skip this version and instead assure that we deliver version 60.0 in timely manner in August.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/news/
The latest version 2017.11, is based on Chromium 62.0.3202.94
New builds for macOS, Debian based systems, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS will all be released this week!

Please note!
* = Running the Iridium portable version works out of the box. We recommend to create a shortcut using the
--user-data-dir=/IridiumUserData
configuration option to store the user data to a preferred location (like a USB stick, etc.)

I was able to see connections to fra[...]1e100.net (1e100.net is a Google-owned domain name used to identify the servers in our network.)
But only temporarily, not permanent.
And connections to ir-[...].iridiumbrowser.de right after Iridium Browser was started.

I wanted to uninstall uMatrix and uBlockO but wasn't able to. The trash can isn't functional and even deactivating these extensions wasn't possible

I was able to see connections to fra[...]1e100.net (1e100.net is a Google-owned domain name used to identify the servers in our network.)
But only temporarily, not permanent.
And connections to ir-[...].iridiumbrowser.de right after Iridium Browser was started.

I wanted to uninstall uMatrix and uBlockO but wasn't able to. The trash can isn't functional and even deactivating these extensions wasn't possible